The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-19
farm Aotes.
SOWING PLASTER IN WINTER

1t is important hat land nIa.tu
be sown early in the season to har
it thoroughly dissolved by ra;n'
Any time in the winter is bettns
than after dry weather has Como 81
spring. 1t is a common practiro III
places where it is used ~laropIv III III
sow it on clover in the winter hSf"
other and hurrying work begins,
LICE ON CALVES.
Look out for the calves and wool.
ly sheep at this season. If cold
weather and change to drv fooJ
make them thin, vermin are prettv
sure to follow. Kerosene mivnd
with lard, rubbed into the SKIN
where the vermin are most numor
Gus, will soon destroy them. Then
feed fattening food, oil meal or corn
Vermin rarely attack stock in GOOD
flesh, for fat of any kind is sure death
to them.
FATTENING MICH COWS.
A farrow cow may be fattened
by high feeding while giving milk
But unless there is especial use for
the milk it is not good policy to do
so. Dairymen who can make every
quart of milk pay high prices do It
but the farmers who rely on turning
milk into butter milk will do better
to dry early and fatten all the faster
They thus get the profit of MAKING
oleomargarine without it's attempted
fraud.
CUTTING C~ORNSTALKS BY HAND.
1t is slow. hard work to cut stalks
by hand for a number of cattle. re-
quiring one or two hours per day,
which if time is valuable as it ought
to be should not be wasted in this
For a few dollars a horse power cut
ter can be got which in a single dav
will cut all the stalks to be used dur
ing the winter. The farmer is a
poor manager who cannot use the
time of himself or men thus saved
in some better way than in compel
ing with horse and steam power.
FEEDING FOWLS IN wINTER
1t requires time to feed fowls prop
erly. If when hungry they are Civ
en- whole grain in quantity their
g%reediness makes them swallow it
too rapidly. This is especially true
OF large grain, like corn Rather
than feed them shelled corn by the
handful we should give it to them
on the ear in a place where there is
plenty of straw, and let them peck
it off. Some corn might be lost but
not much and it is more than made
good by the exertion the fowls will
get in feeding themselves.
WATERING COWS, IN WINTER.
A cow giving milk naturally
drinks water than another an
imal the same size. With the tenn
perature down to zero or below, and
drinking from a hole in the ice, this
cold water will lower the tempera-
ture of her body for hours. retard
digestion and decrease the yield Of
milk. The COW, Tn fact, will not
drink much of this cold water and
this is one reason for decreased
yield. In winter a little hot water
to take the chill off will be a COM
for the COW and a profit for her
owner. We can we'll afford to thus
exchange a little warm water for
milk.
WARMTH EDnN STOCU- n DADNS
Any kind Of stock in comfortably
close quarters give out a perceptible
heat, which in cold weather warns
animals kept in the same rooms. In
we'll filled basement this warmth
IS sufficient to keep roots from freez-
ng, with possibly a light covering,
n the very coolest weather. With
IN outside temperature at zero or
below we have seen a basement
Tiled with sheep where the water
Kept for them to drink did not
reeze over even at night when the
sheep are quiet and the cold is great-
'st. Blood heat in farm animals, as
n man, is $50, and there is not only
'adiation from their bodies but an
equal degree of warmth from their
breath and excrement.
WINTERING STOCK CHEAPLY.
Oil and cotton seed meal are now
% low that there many places where
hey are the cheapest food that can
bought for stock. They are not
ldapted to feeding any stock exclu-
as their nutriment is too con-
'entrated. A very little oil meal